[Gtk-sharp-list] Text input in drawing area

[Piotr Zurek]

On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 19:43, Michael Hutchinson
<m.j.hutchinson at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 6:51 PM, Piotr Zurek <p.zurek at gmail.com> wrote:
> Because you're only using the child in a very limited way, you can
> probably just subclass Bin and stuff the child in that, so it does the
> bulk of work of propagating mapping, realization, destroying, etc. to
> the child. Then, on the expose event of your widget, you have to check
> the child state depending on the state of your widget. You may have to
> set its visible state, or give it a requisition if its position has
> changed, then propagate the expose.

That sounds like what I had in mind, because this approach means that
I can pretty much bolt it on what I already have.

> I think the Medsphere GTK# widget have some containers written in
> managed code you could look at.

I'll definitely have a look at those widgets.

Thanks again.

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